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- Morning trainiacs!
Every time that I think that I've got
my last outdoor bike ride in,
I get another one.
For the past couple of years,
GoPros have been the camera that
we've love to hate around here.
Like in theory they're really good,
but when you start working with the footage,
it's often really murky,
super shaky,
until this GoPro HERO7 came out.
And it blew our freaking mind.
Yesterday I did a shot that was so impressive
that I think it's at least worth going though.
For those of you who haven't seen the multitude
of videos out there,
we'll do the GoPro HERO5,
which is essentially the same as the GoPro HERO6.
Versus the new GoPro HERO7.
And how it relates to how us triathletes tend to use it.
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So what we're gonna do here,
is we're gonna go for a wee little ride.
We gonna go for a wee little run.
I will take each go pro in a couple of the scenarios
that you would normally use it for as a triathlete.
And I'll show you just how different it is.
It is significant!
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So,
all of that footage there
was from the GoPro HERO7.
Frankly just because it's much nicer
than the GoPro HERO5.
But we'll go inside and we'll put them side by side
and show you the differences between the seven and the five.
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Alright let's go.
So we've got,
I don't know....
one, two, three, four, five,
six different types of videos
that you'll regularly get from GoPro.
As a triathlete,
it's typically the same sort of thing over and over.
We're mounting it onto a bike,
we're setting it in motion,
and covering a whole bunch of video.
We are running with it,
getting some (inaudible),
we are pointing it,
as we're bumping and moving around.
We're putting it under water.
So what I'll do here is on the left will be the GoPro seven.
On the right will be the GoPro five.
And what you can see basically,
instantly,
is that the GoPro HERO5 it's not as smooth.
And that was a ton of the video footage that I've been
getting for the past three years when I go on the bike.
It would be that cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-cha
as I'm going over bumps in the road,
as we're just going over breaks in the road.
The GoPro HERO7 is just smooth as butter.
But if you wanna be like me
and take some selfie videos as you are riding,
again you can see that with the GoPro seven,
much much smoother.
With the GoPro five you get that pa-pa-pa-pa-pa.
And like small little hand movements
just doesn't make it look very good.
As you put the GoPro up to the wheel,
same sort of thing.
You don't get that really nice,
smooth motion with the GoPro HERO5
that you get with the seven.
And yeah,
look at that.
Where I was pointing the camera at my crankset,
peddling,
and there's just that little bit
of chatter with the GoPro five
that you don't get with the seven.
Finally,
this last video that we've got
to show you how the difference in smoothness
is between the two,
we have the running selfie that I take a lot of.
The running selfie on the five,
it was basically unusable.
On the seven,
very nice.
When I would turn it onto my feet,
like if I would point it down,
it was again,
it was like it was disorienting with the five.
And then I would turn it off to the side.
And oh geez yeah.
This is the first time I've ever seen that.
That it's really nice quality footage.
What I would have to do before with the five,
is I would actually,
if it were a less important run,
I would run with about 100 to two or three
hundred dollar little gimbal for the GoPro five.
And then I'm not really getting very good run in.
Or I've got to stuff it in my little sash.
It wasn't good.
Now just in the GoPro it's nice and stabilize.
We'll just show one more.
If you're about to get up out of the saddle,
and you're going to move the bars back and forth,
oh it's so much better!
The stabilization in the seven,
it shows that I am moving the bars back and forth.
But it doesn't give you that
disoriented feeling right there.
Big fan.
And then there's one feature that
I wanted to use more often in the five,
that I can now use in the seven.
And it's the TimeWarp.
In the five you didn't have the option
for a moving time lapse that looked any good.
Because a time lapse use to be a whole bunch
of photos that were stitched together.
Because they're taken in different spots,
it looks very jagged.
Now,
with the GoPro HERO7,
they've got what's called the TimeWarp.
So I think what they're doing is they're taking
a stabilized video and they're turning it
into a time lapse and smoothing it out.
So with the five those moving time lapses were basically
unusable and they looked super unprofessional.
Do it with the seven,
you can get a sense of what's around you because
it's not just bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah.
The image quality on the seven,
it picks up a little bit more information
from the darks.
That's dynamic range is what it's called.
So that dark areas in your video
are actually a little but lighter.
And that was one of the big problems with the six.
The six did have a fair bit of stabilization.
But as soon as you went into a slightly dark area,
you got a huge amount of noise in the video
that it was almost unusable.
With the seven,
you get a fair bit more sharpness.
When you would compare the underwater
swim footage from GoPro HERO7 to the HERO5,
the color science is not that much better.
The ability to like really get a nice rich color underwater
is not that much better.
GoPro underwater footage is like it's serviceable.
It's okay.
But that stabilize footage that allows you to clamp a GoPro
onto like a lane line,
clamp it onto a flutter board.
Or I even use like my fin
and hang it over the edge of the pull deck.
And stick it in the water.
And even though that fin is kind of just going like this,
and getting a little micro-vibrations,
it's completely stable under water.
Where as the GoPro HERO5,
it wasn't good.
You might not have know that there is a huge amount of
the footage that we used from the Iron Man video,
that was from the GoPro that you would have thought
was this camera with a gimbal.
Now this isn't the definitive be all,
end all,
GoPro HERO5 versus seven video.
Frankly there are more
and many many better comparisons with
absolutely everything that you could possible
wanna know between the GoPro HERO5 and seven.
But they might not necessarily be in the scenarios
that a triathlete would use them in,
so we do this video.
Now the six,
was a little bit better than the five.
We tried it for about a week.
But for the $700 that it was for us,
it wasn't significantly better.
The seven,
very good and you could see that for the scenarios
that a triathlete is going to use them in,
much much better.
So,
triathlon Taren,
stamp of approval on the GoPro HERO7.
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